[livius]

Very, very good catch. The only major difference is the chin.

But didn't one of the people who had actually seen JD2 mention having heard him say a few words, and that he had a foreign - but not Hispanic - accent? (I may be wrong on this.) Not that this rules him out, in any case. To a person from OK, the accent of a Puerto Rican New Yorker would sound very foreign. It would also not sound very Hispanic, because to folks in OK, Hispanic probably means Mexican. But there's a big difference between the accent of somebody from Guadalajara and that of somebody who grew up in a Spanish-speaking household in East Harlem or the Bronx.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

A Spanish speaking New Yorker would sound a bit different than someone who grew up south of the border.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually, the main difference I see is the lips. The photo of the recently arrested guy shows a small thin-line mustache just above a much smaller upper lip. The guy in the composite sketch has a very full upper lip but no mustache. Without the mustache the photo guy's mouth wouldn't look anything like the composite sketch guy's mouth. However, with the mustache creating an illusion of a full upper lip, the resemblance is startling. It's possible that the person or people who guided the composite sketch artist had only a vague memory of his appearance, and didn't remember that a small mustache had been part of it.

It would be really interesting to see if anyone can track down a mug shot from one of his earlier arrests, closer to the OKC bombing date. If he was wearing this style mustache back then, I think there's a serious possibility it's the same guy. One would hope the FBI would already have done this exercise, but one doesn't feel at all confident about that. Are any freepers up to it?

[rwfromkansas]

The thing is, the OTHER picture of this guy on this thread don't show as pronounced a chin like that, though still not as exaggeratedly flat as the sketch....making him look a LOT more like the sketch of JD 2.

[sheik yerbouty]

Puerto rican Spanish is spoken faster than Mexican Spanish. It does sound different.

[SerpentDove]

>> Very, very good catch. The only major difference is the chin.<<

A police sketch is done from someone's description of the suspect. This one is REALLY a close match IMHO.